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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Letter to Sir Robert Cecil (10 May 1593)
- Love
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.
John Steinbeck1902–1968“In Awe of Words”, written for The Exonian, Phillips Exeter Academy (c. 1954)
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977Diary entry, February 1932
Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.
Petrarch1304–1374Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta), sonnet 134, lines 1-2
The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann1875–1955Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 4, as translated by David Luke
- Writing
I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain.
Stephen Kingborn 1947The Green Mile (1996)
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Rumi1207–1273Masnavi II, 1552; 1554 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
- God
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Pensées philosophiques (1746), No. 1, as translated in Otis Fellows, Diderot (1977), p. 39
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the “Pathetic Fallacy.”
John Ruskin1819–1900Modern Painters (1843-1860), Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856)
I’m always described as “cocksure” or “with a swagger,” and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
Ben Affleckborn 1972Daily Post (Liverpool), “Big Ben makes directing debut” (30 May 2008)
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better.’ They’re wrong. When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Keanu Reevesborn 1964Interview with Dotson Rader, Parade (11 June 2006)
- Life & Death
I think I’m a little bit heartbroken all the time, even when I’m in a happy relationship. I don’t do casual very well, and my feelings, even the good ones, get so intense that they hurt.
Dakota Johnsonborn 1989Haskell, Rob (January 13, 2017). “Fifty Shades’s Dakota Johnson on Sex, Fame, and Building a Career on Her Own Terms”
- Love
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (1861)
- Friendship
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952)
- Virtue
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What is Art? (1897)
- Art